Oliganisus ryozensanensis Tanaka 2018 (ostracod)

Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Kloedenellidae

Full reference: G. Tanaka. 2018. Taxonomy, in Early Permian (Cisuralian) ostracods from Japan: characteristic ostracod assemblage from a seamount of the Panthalassic Ocean. Zootaxa 4515:1-67

Belongs to Oliganisus according to G. Tanaka 2018

Sister taxa: Oliganisus punctatus, Ellipsella distenta, Ellipsella calcar

Type specimen: MPC-24961. Its type locality is Gongen-dani Valley, Ryozensan Mountain, which is in a Sakmarian carbonate lime mudstone in the Ryozensan Limestone Formation of Japan.

Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Gongen-dani Valley, Ryozensan Mountain

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